Colonel Steve Banks is the branch head for Modelling and Simulation Learning Technologies at NATO Headquarters Supreme Allied Commander Transformation (HQ SACT). He also serves as capability monitor for three programmes: NATO Next Generation Modelling and Simulation, Political Military Assisted Decision Making, and Education Training Exercise and Evaluation Functional Services.

Prior to this position, Colonel Banks was the Chief of the Environment Operations Division, U.S. Joint Staff J7 in Suffolk, Virginia.

Colonel Banks was commissioned in the U.S. Army in 1998 and in 2006 transitioned from armour branch to simulations operations. He has deployed to Kuwait, Iraq, and Afghanistan. In Afghanistan he was assigned as a planner to the NATO International Security Assistance Force - Joint Command (IJC) in 2014.

Colonel Banks holds the following degrees: Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from Purdue University, Master of Business Administration from Purdue University, Master of Military Operations from the U.S. Army School for Advanced Military Studies, and a Master of Strategic Studies from the U.S. Army War College.